Civil lawsuit against KU basketball's Sherron Collins dropped

4. keegan ignores the genuine KU fans' postings and the best interests of the Lawrence community. He goes out of his way to quote some posts out of context which distort what most posters really are saying. He casts a broad endictment of ALL message board posters, whether they were posting stupidly or not. Keegan completely ignores the fact that he and Ryan Greene had control over the KUSports.com message board he was complaining about. They had the ability to delete posts and ban posters. Keegan neglects to mention in his article that he has the ability to clean up some of the ugly mess he and the LJW have made. He'd rather just whine about it than actually clean up his mess. Keegan pens an article stating the accuser deserves respect. Keegan makes no real attempt to differentiate whether the accuser deserves respect if she is the one not telling the truth. Most choose to reserve judgment and wait to give respect to the person who is telling the truth in the case.

5. knowledgeable and frustrated readers/bloggers dogpile keegan. The consistent pattern displayed in this case and the Brandon Rush case fiasco reporting have created an environment where many readers no longer trust the LJW, and especially Keegan, to tell the truth.

6. the lawsuit is dropped.

7. Readers/bloggers interested in fairness call for keegan and other LJW leadership to apologize for their role in making a bad situation worse.

8. Blind sycophant readers claim that keegan never did anything wrong, and insult anyone that says otherwise. The sycophants refuse to even acknowledge the legitimate arguments of those they disagree with. Real KU fans with open minds choose to ignore the personal insults and choose to focus on the issue. They see the light and recognize the truth when they read it.

8.a. One sycophant reader posts a very biased and distorted chronology of events that leaves out the important factors that caused so many to become so frustrated and even angry with the LJW.

9. Knowledgeable readers/bloggers correct the sycophant readers/bloggers. A corrected, more complete, and more accurate chronology is posted. While more detail could have been listed, the post was already too long for comfort, and apologies for the necessity of the long post are extended to all.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...BEHOLD A MORE COMPLETE AND ACCURATE HISTORY!!!!

November 14, 2008 at 5:46 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Civil lawsuit against KU basketball's Sherron Collins dropped

THE CORRECTED AND MORE ACCURATE ANATOMY...

1. an accusation is made against collins

2. the LJW has to cover it, BEING A NEWS PUBLICATION (which is expected). However, the LJW misreports the incident by rushing the story to press and initially only reports the accuser's side of the story.

2.a. the LJW begins sensationalizing the story by listing it as "breaking news" even though the incident supposedly took place many months earlier and had no particular reason to run the story immediately without getting all the information first. The breaking news listing is also an obvious blatantly low class ploy to get extra web hits from Google News Search (and other search tools). The LJW has a history of favoring this tactic with stories that cast Lawrence and KU in a negative light.

2.b. the LJW releases the incomplete and partially inaccurate story to the wire services. Since most national publications will consider most of the followup stories "minor",very very few will run any of the subsequent stories which give Collins side of the story.

2.c. the LJW continues to run story after story after story that give very little if any new meaningful information. When boring legal documents get filed, the LJW runs another story as "breaking news." Most of these needless pile-on stories are listed as "breaking news." Internet Message board posters both on KUSports.com and many other national boards begin to ridicule the LJW's stories. They mock the LJW for running a story with satirical headlines like, "Attorney in Collins case flatulates and Lawrence conducts exclusive aroma evaluation." More and more people that care about KU and Lawrence are frustrated by the irresponsible coverage of this story by the LJW.

2.d. knowledgable and respectful KU fans protest the constant drumbeat. They don't want the case tried in the press. Most posters recognize only 2 people know what happened in the elevator and most fans just want the legal system to handle the case, NOT THE PRESS! Some of us publicly post and request that the LJW stop their irresponsible behaviour and simply report the court's final decision when it comes. We request an end to the continually draging of Collins, Ms. Brown, and the Community through the mud.

3. A very small ignorant few readers/bloggers dogpile the woman before any information is known one way or the other, and genuine KU fans post to renew the call for the case to be handled by the legal system, not in the press.

November 14, 2008 at 5:41 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Civil lawsuit against KU basketball's Sherron Collins dropped

JayCeph

Exactly where did anyone suggest that someone should apologize for selling advertising?

I said that the LJW should apologize for blowing this case out of proportion. Feel free to make up something else and find fault with it, but you'll only be finding fault with your own fictional fanasy.

I appreciate how your other comments agreed almost verbatim with my many posts on this topic over time though. Nice to see that you agree with my position whether you really want to admit it or not.

November 13, 2008 at 5:46 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Civil lawsuit against KU basketball's Sherron Collins dropped

I love it when Ryan Greene proves that I'm correct by posting a personal attack. He knows that I'm correct, and he cannot successfully argue the issue on its merits.

November 13, 2008 at 3:39 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Civil lawsuit against KU basketball's Sherron Collins dropped

When will the LJW print an apology?

When will Keegan apologize for the way he insulted many of his own readers?

The LJW was ready to jump and print a story about an attorney's flatulance when this story first broke. When they finally realized that the case was weak and that they weren't going to be able to justify trashing KU or a KU player, they backed off.

There are a FEW employees for the LJW that are good hard working people, but the senior managment and the Sports department managment have once again shown their bias. They've proven that they do not have Lawrence's best interests at heart.

The LJW acted like the publicist in charge of defamation against Collins for Brown and her attorney. They blew this story out of proportion to sell papers. They sold internet advertising. When is the LJW going to apologize for blowing this story out of proportion?

Taking advantage of a college kid by wrecking his reputation to promote your business is a sad and sickening business philosophy. There are PLENTY of better and more interesting stories to write, but the Lawrence Journal Inquirer would rather peddle sleaze.

Will the LJW now help repair Sherron's reputation? Will they write twice as many stories about the GOOD THINGS he does off the court as they wrote about this oversensationalized story?

I'm not holding my breath. That would require integrity in leadership at the LJW.

November 13, 2008 at 1:03 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Unveiling title banner to highlight Late Night

Darnell Jackson is a WINNER. He may be the guy that becomes the most under appreciated heart and soul player in the NBA. His example may provide that steady influence that a hyperstar like LeBron needs.

I love the idea of having two banner hanging dates. I'm not certain about recruiting schedules for football, but I hope we'll be able to have football recruits in the Fieldhouse on November 18 to enjoy the atmosphere for the 2nd banner hanging. Let them see the enthusiasm that KU fans are capable of. I haven't looked at the NBA schedules, but I hope some or all of our National Champion players that are currently playing in the NBA will also be able to attend one date or the other.

Just to clear up a few other things...

Johnny Cochran passed away 2 or 3 years ago. I don't expect him to come back. I also think associating the DateGate incident to the OJ case is extremely irresponsible. Whether you belive OJ did it or not, people died with that case. Arthur and Chalmers just had some women in their stinky room. It's hardly a similar situation.

Unfortunately, Gary Bedore is allowing himself to be influenced by Keegan and his penchant for constantly picking at scabs to keep them bleeding as long as possible. Maybe one of these days fans and readers will wise up and hold him accountable for puss and infection. An antibotic injection of new leadership in the LJW Sports department would help.

C'mon Gary, you're a better writer than to allow yourself to fall into this trap. Rehashing old news? Jackson has been quoted about the DateGate incident previously. You know you've got plenty of things to write about without pulling Keegan/Doogie lame stunts. Please don't stoop to their level. Set the example of how a quality reporter works.

October 3, 2008 at 9:54 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Keegan: Sellout makes statement

It's about time Keegan finally recognized that KU FB has arrived.

Most everyone else recognized it last year when we beat OSU and aTm on the road. Some folks are just slow, I guess.

Now that he's admitted KU FB has arrived, does this mean we'll be getting improved coverage from the LJW now?

(I'm not holding my breath. I expect to see him taking pot shots at us again within the week.)

September 18, 2008 at 9:57 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Kansas AD Perkins voted top sports executive in the world

"But this vote wasn't just a reflection of me. Chancellor (Robert) Hemenway, our faculty, our coaches and our student-athletes all play an important role in reaching our ultimate goal - unparalleled excellence."
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Lew sure has accomplished a lot. He did leave some important folks of the list, not that I'm holding it against him.

FANS!!
Hey... we're the ones filling Memorial Stadium and the Fieldhouse.

Boosters!!
Let's face it... they are paying a lot of the bills to make it all happen.

Is it appropriate to thank our opponents, especially the ones that wilt under pressure and fall apart when facing the best athletic program in the country? Hey... we need to beat up on somebody, or what would be the point, right?

I think it would be appropriate thank North Carolina and Roy Williams for not playing Defense and allowing us to run them over like roadkill in the semifinal.

I'll allow other posters to list other opponents they think should be thanked for getting beat by KU to help make the award possible. There's plenty more out there. hehehe

September 18, 2008 at 7:40 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Hardware failure causes Web site outage

LOL, Nice Warren.

September 17, 2008 at 7:19 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Darnell Jackson's letter to KU fans

Congratulations Darnell.

Don't be a stranger. Lawrence will always welcome you back with open arms.

Lawrence is a great place because of it's people, and I'm proud that those people have been able to help Darnell the last few years. Those same people will be helping many more in years to come.

This is just one example of why many of us ardently defend Lawrence and KU against the detractors that go out of their way to distort our flaws and overblow them.

Thank You Darnell.

You are one of us now.

When your playing days are done (I hope you have a long and successful career.), bring your family back home to Lawrence and help us help the next generation the same way you were helped. You might find that task more rewarding than basketball ever was.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk.

September 6, 2008 at 10:28 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )